System of measuring image of pattern in high na scanning-type euv mask

ABSTRACT

A system of measuring an image of a pattern in a high NA scanning-type extreme ultra-violet (EUV) mask is disclosed. The system may include a light source generating an EUV light; an toroidal mirror; an flat mirror allowing light, which is reflected by the toroidal mirror, to be incident into the mask; an beam splitter; a light detection part; an anamorphic zone-plate lens focusing a transmitted portion of a light emitted from the beam splitter on the mask; a stage; and an anamorphic photo sensor, which is configured to measure an energy of a reflected portion of the coherent EUV light, is composed of a detector array, and has different sizes from each other in horizontal and vertical directions of an incidence surface of the detector array.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present disclosure relates to a system of measuring an image of apattern in a high NA scanning-type extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask, andin particular, a system of measuring an aerial image of a EUV photomaskpattern, which is used in a high NA EUV exposure process that isperformed to form a fine pattern on a wafer in a semiconductorfabrication process.

Recently, an EUV scanner using an EUV light having a wavelength of 13.5nm is being applied to a semiconductor fabrication process. For afirst-generation EUV lithography system using the EUV scanner, thescanner determining a line width of a pattern is provided to have anumerical aperture (NA) value of 0.33. The EUV lithography system havingthe NA value of 0.33 has an economical efficiency, when it is used tofabricate a semiconductor device, in which patterns are provided to havea half pitch (HP) of 16 nm.

However, with the introduction of the artificial intelligence (AI) and5-th generation (5G) technologies, there is an increasing demand for ascaled-down semiconductor device having HP of 16 nm or less. Thus, it isexpected that an EUV scanner having an increased NA value (e.g., 0.55)will be used for the semiconductor fabrication process.

The EUV scanner having the increased NA value of 0.55 is called a highNA EUV scanner to distinguish it from the conventional scanner, and alithograph process using the same is called a high NA EUV lithographprocess. The high NA EUV lithography process has some peculiar features;for example, an anamorphic optical system is used in the scanner. Thus,when mask patterns of the photomask are copied on a wafer, a ¼ reductionpattern is formed on the wafer, like that in the conventional scanner,in a left/right direction of the mask (e.g., in a direction orthogonalto a scanning direction), whereas a ⅛ reduction pattern is formed on thewafer in an up/down direction of the mask (e.g., in the scanningdirection). In this case, to form the pattern of the same size on thewafer in the up, down, left, and right directions, the size of the maskpattern in the up/down direction should be two times that in the leftand right directions. This effect in the anamorphic optical system mayaffect not only the structure of the optical system of the describedscanner but also a shape of a pattern formed on the mask.

The following is the reason that a high NA scanner has the structure ofthe anamorphic optical system. Due to a mask incidence angle of about6°, a NA value, which can be achieved by the mask, is restricted to thevalue of sin(6°) (i.e., about 0.1), and in a ¼ reduction optical system,the largest value of NA may be 0.1*4=0.4. Thus, in order to obtain a NAvalue of 0.55 or larger, it is necessary to introduce a ⅛ reductionoptical system. This is because, in the ⅛ reduction optical system, itis possible to obtain a NA value of 0.1*8=0.8. However, if the reductionratio decreases from ¼ to ⅛, a pattern exposing process on the wafer maysuffer from low productivity. In order to avoid the problem of lowproductivity, it is necessary to maintain the conventional ¼ reductionratio for a normal surface, not for the incidence surface of 6°. Thus,it is necessary to introduce the anamorphic optical system, in which the⅛ reduction is applied to a scan direction (i.e., parallel to the planeof incidence angle of 6 degree) and the conventional ¼ reduction ismaintained in a direction perpendicular thereto, for the high NAscanner.

In the case where the scanner with the anamorphic optical system is usedin a high NA lithography process, a high NA EUV mask is required to havea mask pattern that is formed to be suitable for the anamorphic opticalsystem, and in this case, due to the asymmetry between the reductionratio in the up/down and left/right directions, the high NA EUV maskshould be manufactured to have the asymmetry in the pattern size.

A process of manufacturing the high NA EUV mask may include processes ofinspecting and correcting defects in photomask patterns and yield in awafer-level process is greatly affected by the inspection and correctionprocesses. This is because a defect on photomask patterns are copied toall wafers. A defect pattern, which is found by the mask inspectionprocess, may be corrected by the correction process. An exposure processusing a scanner may be directly performed on a wafer, and then, a SEMinspection process may be performed to examine whether the correction issuccessful. However, this method requires a large amount of cost and along evaluation time, and thus, in the current mask manufacturingprocess, a system, which has a microscope structure and is configured tomeasure an aerial image of a mask and to emulate an optical system inthe scanner, is used to cost-effectively evaluate influence of a patternon a wafer.

PRIOR ART DOCUMENT Patent Document

(Patent Document 0001) KR 10-1811306

(Patent Document 0002) KR 10-0875569

SUMMARY

An embodiment of the inventive concept provides a high performanceanamorphic aerial image measuring system for a high NA EUV mask.

An embodiment of the inventive concept provides a technology ofefficiently focusing a coherent EUV light on an anamorphic zone-platelens and a technology of imaging an anamorphic mask pattern using theanamorphic zone-plate lens and an anamorphic photo sensor.

An embodiment of the inventive concept provides a high performanceanamorphic aerial image measuring system of effectively removing a noisefrom a coherent EUV light using an x-ray beam splitter.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, a system ofmeasuring an image of a pattern in a high NA scanning-type extremeultra-violet (EUV) mask may be provided. The system may include acoherent EUV light source generating an EUV light through a higher ordergeneration; an x-ray toroidal mirror focusing the generated EUV light onan incidence surface to have different focal lengths in horizontal andvertical directions of the incidence surface; an x-ray flat mirrorallowing light, which is reflected by the x-ray toroidal mirror, to beincident into the mask; an x-ray beam splitter configured to reflect aportion of a beam focused by the x-ray toroidal mirror and to transmitthe other portion of the beam; a light detection part detecting thereflected portion of the beam emitted from the x-ray beam splitter; ananamorphic zone-plate lens focusing the transmitted portion of the beamemitted from the x-ray beam splitter on the mask, the anamorphiczone-plate lens having the same focal length and different numericalapertures (NA) in a vertical direction of an incidence surface; a stage,on which a reflection-type EUV mask is placed, and which moves in adirection of a x- or y-axis to scan an image of the reflection-type EUVmask; and an anamorphic photo sensor, which is configured to measure anenergy of the reflected portion of the coherent EUV light when thecoherent EUV light is reflected by the EUV mask, is composed of adetector array, and has different sizes from each other in horizontaland vertical directions to an incidence surface of the detector array.

In addition, the x-ray flat mirror may be configured such that light,which is reflected from the x-ray toroidal mirror and has an anglesmaller than 4°, is incident into the EUV mask at an angle of 4 to 8°.

In addition, the x-ray toroidal mirror may be configured to focus an EUVbeam on the anamorphic zone-plate lens in a shape of the zone-plate lensand thereby to improve light focusing efficiency of the zone-plate lens.

In addition, when light, which is focused by the anamorphic zone-platelens and is reflected by a surface of the mask, is diffused in ananamorphic shape, to detect the light diffused in the anamorphic shape,the anamorphic photo sensor may be configured to have different devicesizes in horizontal and vertical directions to an incidence surface.Here, the anamorphic photo sensor may be provided to satisfy thefollowing equations D(x)=NA(x)*L, and D(y)=NA(y)*L, where D(x) and D(y))are sizes of the array in the directions, L is a distance to the mask,and NA(x) and NA(y) are numerical apertures of the anamorphic zone-platelens in the directions.

In addition, due to a difference between the NA values NA(x) and NA(y),a measurement image, which is measured by the anamorphic photo sensor,may be measured with different resolutions in the x- and y-axisdirections. As for the measurement image, the NA values NA(y) and NA(x)may be reconstructed in connection with ⅛ and ¼ reduced images,respectively. Here, the numerical aperture NA(x) may be a value in theleft/right direction of the mask (i.e., parallel to the x-axis), and thenumerical aperture NA(y) may be a value in the up/down direction of themask (i.e., parallel to the y-axis).

In addition, light reflected by the x-ray beam splitter may be detectedby the light detection part and is used as a reference light, a signalvalue of the reference light detected by the light detection part may beused to remove a noise component, which is caused by a variation inintensity of light generated by the EUV light source, from a signalmeasured by the anamorphic photo sensor, and for both of x and ycoordinates of the stage changed by driving the stage, the signal valueof the reference light may be compared with the signal value of themeasured light to remove a noise component.

In addition, the stage may include a fine stage, which is used toperform a scanning operation for obtaining an image in directions of x-and y-axes, and a coarse stage, which is configured to move a wafer to ameasurement position.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

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FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a system of measuring animage of a pattern in a scanning-type EUV mask according to anembodiment of the inventive concept.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a toroidal mirror, which is provided asa part of the system of measuring an image of a pattern in ascanning-type EUV mask according to an embodiment of the inventiveconcept.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a structure of an anamorphic photosensor, which is provided as a part of the system of measuring an imageof a pattern in a scanning-type EUV mask according to an embodiment ofthe inventive concept.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a method of measuring an image usingthe anamorphic photo sensor in the system of measuring an image of apattern in a scanning-type EUV mask according to an embodiment of theinventive concept.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating aerial images, which are obtained usinga detection part of the system of measuring an image of a pattern in ascanning-type EUV mask according to an embodiment of the inventiveconcept.

FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically illustrating a system of measuring animage of a pattern in a scanning-type EUV mask according to anotherembodiment of the inventive concept, and in particular, illustrating anexample in which a position of an optical system is changed.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Hereinafter, a system of measuring an image of a pattern in ascanning-type EUV mask, according to an embodiment of the inventiveconcept, will be described in more detail with reference to theaccompanying drawings.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, a system ofmeasuring an image of a pattern in a high NA scanning-type extremeultra-violet (EUV) mask may include a coherent EUV light sourcegenerating an EUV light through a high order generation; an x-raytoroidal mirror focusing the generated EUV light on an incidence surfaceto have different focal lengths in horizontal and vertical directions ofthe incidence surface; an x-ray flat mirror allowing light, which isreflected by the x-ray toroidal mirror, to be incident into the mask; anx-ray beam splitter configured to reflect a portion of a beam focused bythe x-ray toroidal mirror and to transmit the other portion of the beam;a light detection part detecting the reflected portion of the beamemitted from the x-ray beam splitter; an anamorphic zone-plate lensfocusing the transmitted portion of the beam emitted from the x-ray beamsplitter on the mask, the anamorphic zone-plate lens having the samefocal length and different numerical apertures (NA) in horizontal andvertical directions of an incidence surface; a stage, on which areflection-type EUV mask is placed, and which moves in a direction of ay- or y-axis to scan an image of the reflection-type EUV mask; and ananamorphic photo sensor, which is configured to measure an energy of thereflected portion of the coherent EUV light when the coherent EUV lightis reflected by the EUV mask, is composed of a detector array, and hasdifferent sizes from each other in horizontal and vertical directions toan incidence surface of the detector array.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, a system ofmeasuring an image of a pattern in a high NA scanning-type EUV mask maybe configured to analyze a pattern defect in an exposure mask, with highresolution, based on an anamorphic aerial image, and may providepromising optical technology for the semiconductor industry.

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a system of measuring animage of a pattern in a scanning-type EUV mask according to anembodiment of the inventive concept.

A system of measuring an image of a pattern according to an embodimentof the inventive concept may include an x-ray toroidal mirror 20 and anx-ray flat mirror 30, which are used to deliver an EUV light output froma light source 10 and constitute a beam focusing part. The x-raytoroidal mirror 20 may be configured to form a measurement light in ananamorphic shape, and the measurement light may be incident into ananamorphic zone-plate lens 60. Here, a transmission light may enable ananamorphic photo sensor 100, which is used to detect light reflected byan EUV mask 70, to obtain a high-resolution anamorphic aerial image.

In an embodiment, to enable light, which is reflected from the x-raytoroidal mirror 20 at an angle smaller than 4°, to be incident into theEUV mask 70 at an angle of 5 to 7° (e.g., 6°), an optical system may beconfigured to irradiate the EUV mask 70 with an x-ray in a maximallyperpendicular direction.

A beam focusing part (e.g., an x-ray toroidal mirror, an x-ray flatmirror, and/or a beam splitter) may include the x-ray flat mirror 30 andthe x-ray toroidal mirror 20, which are used to adjust an angle of abeam incident into the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 to a specific valueand to form a focal point in an anamorphic shape. If a beam emitted froman x-ray source is first reflected by the x-ray flat mirror 30, anincidence angle and a position of the x-ray flat mirror 30 and aposition of the x-ray toroidal mirror 20 may be determined such that thebeam is incident into the x-ray toroidal mirror 20 at an incidence angleless than 2° and the beam reflected by the x-ray toroidal minor 20 isincident into the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 at a constant angle.

Furthermore, in the beam focusing part, if a beam emitted from the x-raysource is first reflected by the x-ray toroidal minor 20, an incidenceangle and a position of the x-ray flat minor 30 and a position of thex-ray toroidal minor 20 may be determined to satisfy the afore-describedcondition.

In an embodiment, a coherent EUV light may include a noise component,and thus, in order to remove the noise component, an x-ray beam splitter40 may be used to send a portion of a beam, which is focused on theanamorphic zone-plate lens 60, to a light detection part or photo sensor50, which is used to measure a reference light. Since light, which ismeasured by the light detection part for detecting the reference light,has the same noise as light in the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60, thenoise component in the coherent EUV light may be removed by dividing asignal, which is reflected by the EUV mask 70 and is measured by theanamorphic photo sensor 100, by a signal, which is measured by referencephotodetector.

Here, all signals at x and y coordinates changed by motion of a stagemay be compared with the reference light to remove the noise componentat every point, and detection in an arbitrarily chosen region may beperformed under a different magnifying condition, based on data obtainedby comparing the measurement light with the reference light. In thiscase, it may be possible to accurately perform the measurement process.

The beam splitter 40 may be formed to have a stacking structure ofmolybdenum (Mo) and silicon (Si), and an amount of light, which isreflected by the beam splitter 40 and is incident into the lightdetection part 50, may be about 5-10% of a total amount of lighttransmitted from the focusing part. An amount of light, which passesthrough the beam splitter 40 and is incident into the anamorphiczone-plate lens 60, may be about 60-80% of a total amount of lighttransmitted from the focusing part.

Thus, the reference light, which is detected by the light detection part50, may be used to obtain a detection value for removing a noisecomponent from light reflected by the EUV mask 70.

A beam, which is incident into the EUV mask 70 through the anamorphiczone-plate lens 60, may be used as a reflection light, which isreflected toward the anamorphic photo sensor 100 and is used to detect amask pattern. The anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 and the anamorphic photosensor 100 will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to5 .

In addition, a stage, which is used to realize a scanning measurement ora mask scanning, may include a coarse stage 90 and a fine stage 80. Thecoarse stage may be designed to move a desired portion of the mask to aspecific position. The fine stage may be placed on the coarse stage, theEUV mask 70 may be designed such that a scanning operation can beperformed in x and y directions (e.g., in the horizontal and verticaldirections of the incidence surface) through motion of the fine stage tomeasure an anamorphic aerial image. When an image measurement region ofthe mask is scanned using the stage, the scanning may be performed suchthat a ratio between sizes in the horizontal and vertical directions ofthe incidence surface has the same value as that in a point focused on asurface of the EUV mask 70 by the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60. Forexample, for NA 0.55, the size of the beam may be 98 nm and 49 nm,respectively, in the horizontal and vertical directions of the incidencesurface, and an image of the mask may be measured by scanning the maskin the horizontal and vertical directions of the incidence surface, atthis ratio.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an x-ray toroidal mirror, which isprovided as a part of the system of measuring an image of a pattern in ascanning-type EUV mask according to an embodiment of the inventiveconcept. The x-ray toroidal mirror 20 may be configured such that a sizeof a focused beam on the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 in a verticaldirection of the incidence surface is about two times that in ahorizontal direction of the incidence surface. For example, the x-raytoroidal mirror 20 may be configured to have a direction-dependentspherical surface. In an embodiment, the x-ray toroidal mirror 20 may bemanufactured such that a curvature (i.e., a radius) in the horizontaldirection of the incidence surface is ½ of that in the verticaldirection.

As shown in the drawings, a reflection light corresponding to ananamorphic shape of the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 may be provided bythe x-ray toroidal mirror 20, in which a spherical surface has adifferent size in each direction, and thus, by obtaining the reflectionlight corresponding to an array structure of the anamorphic photo sensor100, it may be possible to obtain a high-resolution image of a maskpattern.

The anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 may have an anamorphic structure, inwhich a diameter in the horizontal direction of the incidence surface issmaller than that in the vertical direction of the incidence surface. Ifa focal length of the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 is f and the high NAEUV scanner has a NA value of 0.55, the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60may be defined to have a radius r=f*0.55/8 in the horizontal directionof the incidence surface and to have a radius r=f*0.55/4 in the verticaldirection, and the radius in the vertical direction may be two times theradius in the horizontal direction.

Thus, a point, which is focused on a surface of the EUV mask 70 by theanamorphic zone-plate lens 60, has an elliptical shape, which haslengths of 13.5/(2*0.55/8) nm and 13.5/(2*0.55/4) nm in the horizontaland vertical directions of the incidence surface.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a structure of an anamorphic photosensor, which is provided as a part of the system of measuring an imageof a pattern in a scanning-type EUV mask according to an embodiment ofthe inventive concept, and FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a method ofmeasuring an image using the anamorphic photo sensor in the system ofmeasuring an image of a pattern in a scanning-type EUV mask according toan embodiment of the inventive concept.

The anamorphic photo sensor 100 for detecting an x-ray light may becomposed of a detector array. In order to obtain an optimized emulationresult on a structure of an illuminating system of an anamorphicscanner, the sensor array 100 may have different sizes in the horizontaland vertical directions of the incidence surface, like the anamorphiczone-plate lens 60, and its ratio and directions may be the same as adiameter ratio and directions in the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60. Itmay be designed to have a radial structure or a mesh shape.

A left/right direction (e.g., an x direction) of the EUV mask 70 may bealigned to a vertical direction of the incidence surface, and an up/downdirection (e.g., a y direction) of the mask may be aligned to thehorizontal direction of the incidence surface. When a focusing operationis performed using the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 and the scan stageis driven by a distance that is given in the same ratio as a ratiobetween sizes of the focus beam in x and y directions, an aerial image,which is reconstructed through a light measurement operation by a devicethat is one of devices constituting the anamorphic detector array and islocated at a position (x, y), may be designed to correspond to an aerialimage by an inclined light of a high NA EUV scanner (e.g., σ=(x*4/L,y*8/L)) in a one-to-one correspondence.

Aerial images of the scanner under another inclined condition may bereconstructed through combination of aerial images, which have beenmeasured by each detector array of the detection par, without anadditional measurement process. During the image reconstruction, animage size may be reduced by ¼ times in the x direction and by ⅛ timesreduction in the y direction such that the high NA EUV scannercorresponds to an aerial image projected on a wafer in a one-to-onecorrespondence.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating aerial images, which are obtained usinga detection part of the system of measuring an image of a pattern in ascanning-type EUV mask according to an embodiment of the inventiveconcept. FIG. 5(a) shows an image measured from a 44 nm mask pattern atNA 0.33, FIG. 5(b) shows an image measured when radii in the horizontaland vertical directions are given by r=f*0.55/8 and r=f*0.55/4,respectively. The contrast values in FIGS. 5(a) and 5(b) were 54% and76%, respectively, which were different from each other. This showsthat, by using an anamorphic structure, it is possible to obtain adetection signal of a mask pattern with improved accuracy.

FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically illustrating a system of measuring animage of a pattern in a scanning-type EUV mask according to anotherembodiment of the inventive concept, and in particular, illustrating anexample in which a position of an optical system is changed. If, asshown in FIG. 6 , the x-ray toroidal mirror 20 and the x-ray flat mirror30 are disposed in an order different from that in the previousembodiment, an incident angle and a position of the x-ray flat mirror 30and a position of the x-ray toroidal mirror 20 may be determined suchthat an incidence angle of the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 and anincidence angle of the toroidal mirror have the same ranges or values asthose in the previous embodiment, and in this case, the system may bedesigned to have the same measurement performance.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, by using opticalproperties of the anamorphic zone-plate lens 60 and the anamorphic photosensor 100, it may be possible to measure a pattern in the EUV mask 70with high accuracy and to quickly examine whether there is a defect. Inother words, since an EUV beam is focused on a surface of a mask throughthe anamorphic zone-plate lens 60, it may be possible to reduce a sizeof a focal point in a vertical direction of the incidence surface and toincrease resolution of a scanning image in the vertical direction of theincidence surface. This may alleviate many technical difficulties.

In the aerial image measuring system according to the afore-describedembodiment of the inventive concept, by using an anamorphic opticalsystem, it may be possible to improve performance in a verticaldirection of an incidence surface, compared with a conventional aerialimage measuring system, and it may be possible to reconstruct an aerialimage of an anamorphic optical system of a high NA EUV scanner.

Thus, it may be possible to previously check whether a defect in an EUVmask for a high NA is copied in a wafer scanner, through a highperformance anamorphic aerial image measurement, and thereby to preventa lot of wafer-level defects from being caused by a defect of a maskpattern. This may make it possible to increase a wafer yield.

While example embodiments of the inventive concept have beenparticularly shown and described, it will be understood by one ofordinary skill in the art that variations in form and detail may be madetherein without departing from the spirit and scope of the attachedclaims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A system of measuring an image of a pattern in ahigh numerical aperture (NA) scanning-type extreme ultra-violet (EUV)mask, comprising: a coherent EUV light source generating an EUV lightthrough a high order generation process; an x-ray toroidal mirrorfocusing the EUV light on an incidence surface to have different focallengths in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of theincidence surface; an x-ray flat mirror allowing light, which isreflected by the x-ray toroidal mirror, to be incident into the mask; anx-ray beam splitter configured to reflect one portion of a beam focusedby the x-ray toroidal mirror and to transmit another portion of thebeam; a light detection part detecting the reflected one portion of thebeam emitted from the x-ray beam splitter; an anamorphic zone-plate lensfocusing the transmitted other portion of the beam emitted from thex-ray beam splitter on the mask, the anamorphic zone-plate lens havingthe same focal length and different numerical apertures (NA) in thehorizontal and the vertical directions of an incidence surface; a stage,on which a reflection-type EUV mask is placed, and which moves in adirection of an x-axis or a y-axis to scan an image of thereflection-type EUV mask; and an anamorphic photo sensor, which isconfigured to measure an energy of the reflected portion of the EUVlight when the EUV light is reflected by the EUV mask, comprises adetector array, and has different sizes from each other in thehorizontal and the vertical directions of an incidence surface of thedetector array.
 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the x-ray flat mirroris configured such that light, which is reflected from the x-raytoroidal mirror and has an angle smaller than 4°, is incident into theEUV mask at an angle of 5 to 7°.
 3. The system of claim 1, wherein thex-ray toroidal mirror is configured to focus an EUV beam on theanamorphic zone-plate lens in a shape of the zone-plate lens and toimprove light focusing efficiency of the zone-plate lens.
 4. The systemof claim 1, wherein, when light, which is focused by the anamorphiczone-plate lens and is reflected by a surface of the mask, is diffusedin an anamorphic shape, to detect the light diffused in the anamorphicshape, the anamorphic photo sensor is configured to have differentdevice sizes in horizontal and vertical directions of an incidencesurface, and the anamorphic photo sensor is provided to satisfy thefollowing equations:D(x)=NA(x)*L, andD(y)=NA(y)*L where D(x) and D(y)) are array device sizes in an x-axisdirection and a y-axis direction, L is a distance to the mask, and NA(x)and NA(y) are numerical apertures of the anamorphic zone-plate lens inthe x-axis and the y-axis directions.
 5. The system of claim 1, whereinlight reflected by the x-ray beam splitter is detected by the lightdetection part and is used as a reference light, a signal value of thereference light detected by the light detection part is used to remove anoise component, which is caused by a variation in intensity of lightgenerated by the coherent EUV light source, from a signal measured bythe anamorphic photo sensor, and for both of x coordinate and ycoordinate of the stage changed by driving the stage, the signal valueof the reference light is compared with the signal value of the measuredlight to remove a noise component.